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When we experience inner impoverishment, love for another too easily becomes hunger: for reassurance, for acclaim, for affirmation of our worth.

Sharon Salzberg , in Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
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Hold onto who loves and honor you.Not everyone will know how to.Some souls don't even know how to love and honor themselves, let alone you.

Lalah Delia
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People pleasing doesn't allow you to receive.

Abiola Abrams , in The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love
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I am good enough, attractive enough, important enough just as I am. I do not have to fix, help, or caretake others to earn their love.

Shary Hauer
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Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.

Charles L. Whitfield , in Boundaries and Relationships: Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self
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I do not NEED a man. That was an impossible thought when I married John thirty years ago. It was unimaginable even seven years ago. I finally understand why lasting love has eluded me: the relationship I've been searching for all along was with myself.

Shary Hauer , in Insatiable: A Memoir of Love Addiction
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